Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Hamlet 5*****

For those of us brought up on dry classroom readings of Shakespeare this show is a dream. Not only do you get a flavour of what magic a cast of classically trained Shakespearean actors can conjure with these scripts, you … Read More

Fanny Bleach: The Nearly Naked Show 3★★★

Fanny Bleach is weird, and she’s determined to take you with her.

The show is incredibly creative, the costumes are outrageously good, and the whole thing is grotesque, odd and committed to its own strange little world.

Bleach finishes by … Read More

0 Hair – Bald Man Sings Rihanna : 3***

They say the secret to a successful Fringe show is making it plain and simple in your show title what it’s about. In that case, this could be the motherlode and be used in 101-to-make-and-market a successful Fringe show. … Read More

Maia Tassalini: I Was 22 and Stunning 3☆☆☆

Maia Tassallini doesn’t share her age, but she is very glam, so we can attest that at least half of the show title is true. Maia’s hero is/was Monica Lewinski, and this show contributes to a general societal re-examining of … Read More

Zoe Wohlfeld: Dog Funeral 3☆☆☆

The character Zoe Wohlfeld plays on stage is a petulant child, making demands of the audience and then reneging, only to demand again with additional clauses. She causes havoc and disowns responsibility, and wails when she doesn’t like the outcome. … Read More

Phil Nichol – The Naked Racist 4***

Some things never change during the Fringe and one of those things is Phil Nichol. Back in 2006 in a small room in the New Town of Edinburgh the original production of this show, one of 4, yes 4, Nichol … Read More

Richard Pulsford — Gold Fashioned Jokes 3⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fife resident Richard Pulsford is a busy man. Three daily shows this year at the Edinburgh Festival, he’s starting with his midday stupidity, Gold Fashioned Jokes.

“Hands up, who loves Mexican Waves?” And we are off.

So what follows … Read More

An (Early) Evening with Gregor Fisher 4.5 ****.5

Gregor Fisher, an icon of Scottish comedy, is enjoying something of a renaissance with a leading role in acclaimed sitcom Only Child and somewhat surprisingly becoming a social media personality with his cooking videos on Instagram attracting 2.5 million followers.

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Sorabh Dhir — Good Boy 4⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

South London-based Dhir may have done something that comedians in the years gone by have never done — cracked the enigma code to get passing punters into your Edinburgh show. The setup is simple. Put an animal on your flyer, … Read More

0 BC: Before Crisis – 4****

I have to admit I’m a bit of a fan of Liam Jackson and I’m delighted to be able to review his show (0BC) at this years Fringe.  In one of this years mad venues at the Flight Club … Read More